ADRIANOPLE'S FALL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 76, 31 March 1913, Page 5

ADRIANOPLE'S FALL.

LOSSES OF THE ALLIES. 12,000 CASUALTIES. SIXTT THOUSAND PSISOKEKS. WAR STORES WORITI £7,000,000. (By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received 10.50 ajn.) I SOFIA, March 30. The Bulgarian headquarters staff estimates the total number of Bulgarians killed and wounded at Adrianople on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday last at 11,000. The Servians' losses totalled 1.200. The 60,000 prisoners captured include 833 officers, of whom 13 are generals, and 650 guns. It is officially stated from Belgrade that Chukri Pasha and 172 officers were within Hadurlik fort when the Servians captured it. They were not molested for a day. in order that they might formally surrender by General Ivanoff. the Bulgarian ofiker controlling the attack. The final attack on Adrianople is described in a dispatch fro.m Coiieral llvanofT. He states that the Bulgarians captured the eastern forts, and thereupon Chukri Pasha surrendered. The operations of the Bulgarian and Servian troops in other positions around the city were merely of a demonstrative character, and these forces were still far from tho circle of forts when the cast front fell.

Few buildings in the city were damaged by the bombardment. No epidemics occurred during the sie-ffe, the effects of which were not seriously felt by the populace. "Many Turks destroyed their rifles and disabled their guns before the town was surrendered. The electrical lighting plant and th- , wireless stations were also destroyed.

The value of the war material captured by the Allies is £7,000,000. It will be divided equally between the Servians and Bulgarian?,. M. GueshofV, Premier, has warmly acknowledged Servians assistance in connection with Adrianople's fall. Chukri Pasha and his seven subordinate generals showed deep emotion during their reception by thp Commandant who praised* their bTavery. and conducted them to their residence while in captivity-